Adventures with the other side

Historic Anchorage Hotel and Club Paris For our anniversary this year my husband and I decided to spend the night at the Historic Anchorage Hotel, it is of course rumored to be haunted. This quaint hotel was built in 1916; it began as a simple wooden structure and was turned into a luxury hotel in 1917 with the current building which was constructed as an annex opening in 1936. In 1964 the hotel survived the 9.2 magnitude Good Friday earthquake that left much of Anchorage in ruins. Sadly overtime the hotel fell into disrepair but in 1989 new owners restored the hotel to its former glory. Today hotel guest report so many ghost sightings that the front desk keeps a log. One ghost that is said to haunt the hotel is Anchorage’s first police chief Jack Sturgis who on February 20, 1921 was found shot with his own gun just steps away from the hotel, he was then dragged to the hotel but quickly died, rumor has it that he returns every year on the anniversary of the still unsolved ...

The Plaza Hotel Las Vegas New Mexico My first night at a haunted hotel was the Plaza in Las Vegas New Mexico, I took my then finance on a trip to meet my Aunt who lived there and we decided to stay at the hotel. I loved it so much I have returned on multiple occasions. The Plaza Hotel was built in 1881 by a group of businessmen, in 1882 Bryon T Mills an attorney came to Las Vegas and became the owner of the Plaza Hotel, it is said by some that his spirit haunts room 310. My fiancé ( now husband) and I spent the night there in April of 2008, our room was lovely decorated in antiques and looking very much like it must have when it opened over 100 years prior.  Our night was fairly uneventful, nothing out of the ordinary occurred with the exception the television cabinet being open when we went to bed and closed when we woke up. In 2015 I had heard the hotel had been remodeled so when my sister called to say she wanted to take a sister's trip there to see ou...

As a child I was never taught that spirits were not real or that you cannot feel, hear or see them from time to time. I grew up thinking that everyone believed in ghosts and that it was perfectly normal to coexist with them. My Paternal grandmother always “knew” things, she seemed to know what my siblings and I were doing and thinking at all times, when we asked her how she knew she would simply state “A little bird told me” consequently I had visions of a little yellow bird perched on the window seal telling Grandma Nana everything, including those things I did not want her to know. As a result of never being told out of the ordinary things were not real I have always accepted and embraced the things that go bump in the night, or day as the case may be. I have a love of all things old, old people, old houses, old furniture and so on. I have a love of history and my favorite activities include walking through old graveyards, touring old houses, tracing my ancestors and spending ...